Plant species distributions along environmental gradients: Do belowground interactions with fungi matter?

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Pellissier, Loïc ^a,d   Pinto Figueroa, Eric ^a   Niculita Hirzel, Hélène ^a   Moora, Mari ^b   Villard, Lucas ^a   Goudét, Jerome ^a   Guex, Nicolas ^c   Pagni, Marco ^c   Xenarios, Loannis ^a   Sanders, Ian ^c   Guisan, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; Elevation; Fungal communities; Plant assemblage; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901065681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00500     Document Type: Article

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